surtout

plural surtouts

1. A man's overcoat; a close-bodied frock coat.

   He was dressed in the suit he'd bought for his mother's funeral, beaver top hat, silk surtout.

   1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 41

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   Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever.

   1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, in Jane Eyre. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 109

   The house had been new painted, and smelt of varnish and turpentine, and a large streak of white paint inflicted itself on the back of the old boy’s fur-collared surtout.

   1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 68, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

2. fortificationsA raised portion of the parapet of a work at the angles, to protect from enfilade fire.